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Press Conference by Press Secretary

March 1999

March 30

1. Humanitarian assistance from Japan to Kosovo Albanian refugees and displaced persons
2. Official Development Assistance (ODA) from Japan to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
3. Assumption of office by President Luis Gonzalez Macchi of the Republic of Paraguay
4. Cabinet decision to revise the Three-year Program for the Promotion of Deregulation
5. Response of Japan to the situation in Kosovo
6. Support of Japan for the Middle East peace process
7. Reported cooperation between North Korea and the Syrian Arab Republic on weapons development

March 26

1. Visit to Japan by His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani of the State of Qatar from 18 to 21 April
2. Decision of the Government of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya to make available suspects in the Lockerbie case to the United Nations
3. Position of Japan regarding the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) operation in the the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
4. Status of the two unidentified vessels that entered Japanese territorial waters
5. Reported visit to Japan by President Yasser Arafat of the Palestine National Authority

March 23

1. Visit to the Republic of Korea by Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi from 19 to 21 March
2. Policy of Japan and the Republic of Korea toward North Korea
3. Prospect of resumption of food aid by Japan to North Korea
4. Joint technological research between Japan and the United States of America on a ballistic missile defense (BMD) system
5. Visit to Japan by Prime Minister Utkir Sultanov of the Republic of Uzbekistan from 23 to 27 March
6. Visit to Japan by Foreign Minister Farouq al-Shara of the Syrian Arab Republic from 24 to 26 March

March 19

1. Visit to Japan by Prime Minister Utkir Sultanov of the Republic of Uzbekistan from 23 to 27 March
2. Contribution by the Government of Japan to the United Nations University for establishment of the Akino Project
3. Visit to Japan by Foreign Minister Farouq al-Shara of the Syrian Arab Republic from 24 to 26 March
4. View of the Government of Japan on the latest developments in the Middle East peace process
5. Position of the Government of Japan concerning the right of self-determination of the Palestinian people
6. Topics of discussion during the visit of Prime Minister Sultanov of the Republic of Uzbekistan to Tokyo
7. Response of the Government of Japan to the agreement entered into between North Korea and the United States of America concerning inspection of a suspected North Korean nuclear site

March 16

1. Ministry of Foreign Affairs Statement on East Timor
2. Grant Aid to Indonesia for General Elections to Support its Democratization
3. Announcement of the Japan-Canada-Malaysia Peace-keeping Operations Seminar
4. Statement by the Minister for Foreign Affairs Masahiko Koumura on the Agreement by the Afghan Parties
5. Assistance to Indonesia
6. Position of the Government of Japan on East Timor
7. Visit of First Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Maslyukov to Japan
8. Visit by Speaker of the Hungarian Parliament János Adel to Japan
9. Position of the Government of Japan on the enlargement of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

March 12

1. Extension of Official Development Assistance (ODA) loans by Japan to the Republic of the Philippines, the Republic of Indonesia and the Kingdom of Thailand
2. Visit to Japan by Prime Minister Phan Van Khai of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam from 28 to 30 March
3. Accession of the Republic of Poland, Czech Republic and the Republic of Hungary to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
4. Future implementation of the New Miyazawa Initiative
5. Negotiations on extension of oil concessions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
6. Prospects for the extension of Official Development Assistance (ODA) by Japan to the Islamic Republic of Iran

March 9

1. Statement of Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi at the demise of His Highness Shaikh Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Amir of the State of Bahrain
2. Visit to Japan of His Royal Highness Jean, Grand Duc of Luxembourg and Her Royal Highness Joséphine-Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
3. Visit to Japan by United States Policy Coordinator for North Korea, William Perry
4. Status of measures imposed by Japan on North Korea in response to the missile launch by North Korea
5. Official Development Assistance (ODA) from Japan to countries in Asia
6. Status of Consul Shuji Shimokoji
7. Visit to countries in the Middle East by State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Nobutaka Machimura
8. Visit to Japan by President Eduard Shevardnadze of the Republic of Georgia

March 5

1. On the announcement by the United States of America on customs action on European imports
2. Visit to Japan by Minister of Foreign Affairs Jose Ayala Lasso of the Republic of Ecuador from 15 to 18 March
3. Assistance from Japan to rehabilitate the economy of Malaysia
4. Significance of visit to Japan by Minister of Foreign Affairs Jose Ayala Lasso of the Republic of Ecuador from 15 to 18 March
5. Statement by Director General Hosei Norota of the Defense Agency at the Diet
6. Assistance from Japan in response to the Asian economic crisis
7. Visit to Japan by President Eduard Shevardnadze of the Republic of Georgia and Japan's Silk Road diplomacy
8. Japan-Republic of Iraq relations
9. Japan-Republic of India economic relations
10. Japan-Cuba relations
11. Transportation of nuclear waste from the French Republic to Japan
12. Visit to the Middle East by State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Nobutaka Machimura
13. Source of support for North Korean technology

March 2

1. The entry into force of the Anti-personnel Mines Ban Treaty (Ottawa Treaty) on 1 March
2. The election of Olusegun Obasanjo as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on 27 February
3. The border conflict between Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and the State of Eritrea
4. Current state of North Korea's bilateral relations with the United States of America and Japan
5. Speculation regarding another missile launch by North Korea
6. Possibility of Japanese access to North Korean underground nuclear facilities
7. Potential topics of discussion for the future visit of Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi to the Republic of Korea
8. Opposition by the People's Republic of China to Japan's development of a ballistic missile defense (BMD) system

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